You know 'apps', right? Those easy-to-pickup, easy-to-use, easy-to-share mini-applications that you can get through your phone, your portal and even your desktop.
I am a big user and an even bigger fan of apps. So I was quite excited to meet my first app creator last week. By day, Jon Conway is a consultant and a member of our Mashup Developer Community. By night, Jon creates apps for the iPhone, like iPotato and iPoke the Hibernating Bear.
I knew how to consume apps, how they were distributed and socialized. But after I chucked a few iPotatos I realized I had finally a representative of the ‘other half’ of the lifecycle of an app. Now I appreciated where they came from.
That's when a post from Dion Hinchcliffe, master of all things '2.0', really came alive for me. Dion believes the app store is destined to move into the enterprise. He recently wrote about the opportunities and issues associated with the application of the app store model in the enterprise. Here's the summary, in his own words...
The premise of an app store model for enterprises is simple: By removing the middleman, the famous bottleneck between the business and IT demand can be reduced in many cases. Application backlogs can shrink, consumption of internal and external IT resources will increase, and fierce competition to provide the best solutions to niches can greatly improve overall quality (the long tail of IT argument), all while reducing costs.
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